Cancel your planned Thanksgiving side dishes and make this TikTok-famous mac and cheese recipe instead. (Trust us; your guests will thank you.) It’s simple and so good with millions of views — and you will never want to make mac and cheese the old way ever again.
TikToker Tineke Younger shared her famous recipe, which looks positively heavenly. “How to make mac n cheese for this holiday season????????❤️ Welcome to Thanksgiving with Tini where im gonna teach yall how to make EVERYTHING,” Younger captioned the video on TikTok.
Instead of traditional elbow noodles, this recipe calls for cavatappi pasta “because all the cream gets in the hole, and you’re just biting into straight cream.” Yum!
While the noodles are boiling, it’s time for the main event: the cheese! This recipe calls for not one, not two, but six blocks of cheese! Younger shreds the cheese, which includes mozzarella, sharp cheddar, and more. “You have to shred your own cheese, no negotiation,” Younger explains, adding that pre-shredded cheese at the store often has a cornstarch film on it that will make your mac and cheese “grainy.”
She whips up a seasoning mixture next and pours half of it into the pot with a little flour and stirs. She adds evaporated milk and other ingredients, continuously mixing. When it’s ready, she divides the cheese in half and pours a little at a time into the mixture. The pasta and the second half of the seasoning goes in next, which she folds in Schitt’s Creek-style. From there, she pours the finished mac and cheese into a baking dish, layered halfway through with shredded cheese and the rest of the cheese sprinkled on top.
Now it’s finally time to go in the oven! And, oh my goodness, when it’s done it looks amazing — it’s no wonder it has 58.9 million views! (BTW, she shared the same video last year, and it has 126 million views.)
Basically, everyone is going to be making baked mac and cheese Tini’s way this holiday season. We wouldn’t be surprised if it was more popular than the turkey!
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